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...George Bernard Shaw, famed sophisticate, from Grigori Zinoviev, Chief of the Third Internationale, went an answer to the former's sneering criticism of the Bolshevik regime. Said M. Zinoviev: "Shaw, flower of the petty bourgeoisie, considers himself above Karl Marx. But if we compare both, Shaw appears as a scarcely visible dust speck...
About a year later, Okladsky was the highest paid ordinary official of the notorious Okrana or Tsarist secret police. He was created a "personal noble" (noble for life), later an hereditary nobleman.* In Moscow, before his Bolshevik judges, he said that he had been forced to betray his Nihilist comrades under the inhuman torture to which he was subjected while awaiting execution and, at the price of his freedom, had consented to join the Okrana and work for the Tsar...
Adolf A. Joffe, one of the greatest exponents of Bolshevik diplomacy, now Russian Minister to Austria, waxed contemptuous of a reported anti-Bolshevik league in the Balkans, hinted at war. warned against verbal sabre-rattlings: "Naturally, this Balkan shouting about the Bolshevist danger arouses great bitterness among the people of the Soviet Union and enhances the difficulties of reaching an understanding between the Soviet Government and the Balkan States...
Throughout all the Russia that is really Bolshevik, arrangements proceeded to hold a grave mourning week for departed Comrade Nikolai Lenin who died a year ago (TIME...
...week was to be spent mainly in securing recruits to the Bolshevik ranks. Lenin's jet-black tomb in Red Square, Moscow, was to be visited by all true Bolshies, and everywhere was to be proclaimed the principles for which the dead Red leader lived and died...